TripAdvisor Reviews Sasaya Hotel Chikuma

Travel Blogs from Chikuma

... Castle, which as fate would have it looked awesome under the snow. Adam found some more stitch merch including a coin with him printed in front of the castle. When we where inside I introduced him to the stairs of death... really you could easily die on these stairs they are more of a wall then stairs. After a quick tour we went back to the station to catch a bus to the hotel. Stopping only once to check out an anime store.

... drink it to use all the flavours. We also had some steamed radish and pickled greens which were served first. Gee lucky we had done some activity because it was a huge meal and only about $17 per person. After being home a bit, we needed to go for a walk due to still being massively full from lunch. We got dropped into town for a wander but cut it short a bit cos the drizzle began and then turned to snows. I'm lying in our warm room and have ...

... the yummiest udon's I have ever had. Scott had udon with garlic and cheese, a local speciality for the alps. After lunch we were dropped at the ski gondola to go up the mountain for a view of the area. It was a lovely cloudless day so a good chance to do this as the weather is forecast to come in nasty in the next few days. For dinner we went back into town for 2 young teachers ...

Last night when we were chatting , I mentioned that it was forecast to snow, that was dismissed, no it won't snow. During the night I got up to visit the loo and it was happily snowing away and looked like it had been for a while. So pretty. Today was to be Scotty's choice of activity and after a homemade brekky we got the train back down to Nagano to see the Zenko-Ji temple. The forecast was for about 2* max so we were pretty ...

Well today I managed to tick another big ticket off my wildlife list. The Japanese Macaques or Snow Monkeys. Marina made us a delicious traditional breakfast of rice balls stuffed with seaweed and local plums plus a bowl of miso soup and some pickled vegetables and grasshopper. Yes you heard correct grasshopper! They are quite nice really in a exoskeletal kind of way. We had to get the Snow Monkey Express up to Yudanaka to then get a ...